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title: Oh, just set me on the rim of your hat, and then I can walk backward… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: Oh, just set me on the rim of your hat, and then I can walk backwards and forwards and look at the country, and still not fall down." Who acts: you, I. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Water of Life, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Water of Life, sentence 108

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Oh, just set me on the rim of your hat, and then I can walk backwards and forwards and look at the country, and still not fall down."

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**Who acts:** you, I · **What happens:** set, walk, look, not fall down · **To what, where:** me, rim

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This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Water of Life. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg11027:17:108
# text = Oh, just set me on the rim of your hat, and then I can walk backwards and forwards and look at the country, and still not fall down."
1	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	just	just	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	set	set	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	rim	rim	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	hat	hat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	17	advmod	_	_
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	walk	walk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
18	backwards	backwards	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	forwards	forwards	ADV	RB	_	18	conj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	look	look	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
23	at	at	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
28	still	still	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
29	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	30	advmod	_	_
30	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	_
31	down	down	ADP	RP	_	30	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **set** | imperative | you *not said here* | me |  | the rim of your hat |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme on rim=Destination |
| 2 | **walk** | can | I |  |  |  | then | backwards *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **look** | infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at the country | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at country=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **fall down** | infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  | still |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 11027 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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